Being Less Intelligent

Ladies and Gentlemen,

According to the science of the 1990's human intelligence can be measured the following way: every country has got an average level of knowledge and of mental capabilities - and people who know more than the average are smart while people who know less than the average are less intelligent... However I'm afraid that this reconing is only mathematics and it has got not much to do with the colourful, valuable and sensitive human soul (or behavior if you want to be more precise)...

Because what does it mean that you know less than the mathematical average? It means for an individuum that his or her head is empty... However this emptiness is impossible:

a) we, humans belong to the species homo sapiens sapiens - and I think this definition already means that our heads cannot be empty (or else it is about another species which does not think),
b) the other part of our soul next to intelligence, our emotions continously drive us to learn and to explore for countless different reasons and purposes - we fill our heads with something,
c) if we did not use our brain at capacity than our brain would become atrophied - so people who have got a physically healthy brain must use it as well...

Let's say you cannot tell who is the German Chancellor or you cannot assemble funny comics but your brain is filled with:

d) the names and love stories of celebrities,
e) fairy tales that you can tell by heart to your children,
f) the time-table of the railways,
g) the school tasks of your children and grand-children,
h) events on a farm or at the stock exchange,
i) knowledge about how to repair the board computers of an automobile,
j) novels by Tolstoi,
k) top secret phantasies that you don't dare tell anyone etc.

Is your head then empty? Or is the content of your head then less valuable than the average? On contrary to these unworthy assumptions I would say that being different from the mathematical average of knowledge means nothing but countless beautiful villas in the kingdom of intelligence... Being intellectually different does not say anything about the value of the content of your brain - as railway time-tables of factory commuters or the health of your cows is just as interesting as nuclear physics or computer science... At least as long as our society needs factory workers and hamburgers... Only that astrophysics and modern artificial extremities are more trendy than the common knowledge that our everyday life is based on...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team